Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

HERCULE POIROT:

today the most popular detective in fction since Sherlock Holmes, made his bow to the world in this book.

No one had heard the name of AGATHA CHRISTIE

when she shyly sent the MS. to a London publisher. He rejected it! So did others. Then one more far-seeing accepted the new author's work. It became famous-and Christie fans place it among the very best Poirot tales.

Intriguing clues marked the murder at Styles Court-crushed fragments of a coffee-cup, a few threads of fabric, a scrap of half-charred paper, an old envelope with these words on it:

                      possessed

                  I am possessed

                              he is possessed

      i am posessed

                posessed